Board insists lucrative contracts be put out to bid

Debra Moore

Staff Writer

3/26/2014

Plumas County supervisors want contracts pertaining to a water plan, which total more than half a million dollars, to be put out to bid.

The board directed Planning Director Randy Wilson to develop RFQs and RFPs (requests for qualifications and proposals) for assistance in developing the state-required Integrated Watershed Management Plan Update for the upper Feather River watershed.

Wilson asked the supervisors to approve seven contracts during their March 11 board meeting, but met with immediate resistance.

“What process did we use to select the contractors?” Supervisor Sherrie Thrall asked.

When she learned that a request for proposals had not been completed, she questioned how the dollar amounts had been developed.